Some men may believe that one is enough. However, according to one study, getting a second wife may be the secret to living a long life.
According to the Times of India, researchers from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom studied men over 60 from 140 polygamous countries and discovered that they lived on average 12 percent longer than those from 49 monogamous countries.
According to the newspaper, the findings of the study were presented last week at the annual meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology in Ithaca, New York.
Polygamous men live longer than single men, according to researchers, who attribute it to a version of the “grandmother effect.”
Scientists believe that women who live far longer after menopause than other mammals do so because they have more grandchildren to spoil. It appears that caring for grandchildren offers women a purpose to live long after they are no longer capable of reproducing.
Men, on the other hand, do not reap the same rewards from spoiling their grandchildren. Men, on the other hand, can reproduce well into their 60s, 70s, and 80s. According to experts, polygamous men appear to have a father effect, in which the more women they have, the more offspring they father. Researchers determined that fathering children offers them a cause to live longer than monogamous males, who generally quit fathering children at far younger ages.
